, 1887-09-16
TOW N TALK
Cosby Little paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

Uncle Toms Cabin at the opera house
tomorrow afternoon and evening.
In the language of a backwoods philos-
opher, THE days is CROWN smaller"
The Y. NJ. G. A. Bulletin for Septem.
Der will be issued from this Office in a few
days.
Antelope are said to be plentiful for
this season of the year in the Lone Tree
country.
Sale of seats for Uncle TOMS Cabin
will at Rhodes & Troxell's
store this morning.
Minnie Martin, the lewd female arrested
in one of Margaret Henne's houses,
Tuesday night, was fined $1S yesterday.
Tie Siding society item: Patrick Casey
visited Cheyenne last week and purchased
ten pounds of tobacco and a No. 4 shovel
Forty-seven head of graded bulls, dis
posed of by Sheriff Sharpless at an auc-
ton sale Wednesday afternoon brought
only $500.
Mischievious hoodlums continue to
break glass and remove doors in the IN
occupied dwellings on East Sixteenth and
Fifteenth streets.
Men and teams are still scarce in this
section. The Cheyenne & Burlington
Railway company continue to employ
every available laborcr.
James Talbot and wife have disposed OF
a right of way to the Cheyenne and North
ern railroad through lot 4, in section SO,
township IA, for $500.
There is one (perhaps more) Chinese
opium joint and gambling den in the city.
The resort referred to is corner Themes
and Seventeenth streets.
The colored citizens are preparing an
entertainment for Emancipation day, the
22d inst. A portion of the exercises will
occur in the Y. NJ. G. A. hall.
VIM. Grant, the negro who was fined
$l3 for creating a disturbance last week,
refuses to work with the street. cleaning
gang. He will be forced to labor if pos
sible.
Rev. Gilbert De la Matyr, D. D., one of
the most eloquent orators in the land, will
preach next Sunday, both morning and
evening, at the Methodist Episcopal
church.
Local railway officials are complaining
that it is almost impossible to accommo-
date the rapidly increasing travel. The
California excursions swell the volume Of
business.
Cheyenne men engaged in the business
have become remarkably adept at moving
houses. A seven room frame structure
was recently carried two miles in forty
eight hours.
The travelling gentry are evidently Civ
ing this city a wide berth at present. The
police have made several thorough and
systematic raids recently, but have cap.
tured very few tramps.
A grading outfit, consisting of six teams
and twelve men, came in from the north
yesterday afternoon. The owner of the
teams has completed a ~sub-contract on the
Cheyenne 4 Northern.
A party of Inter Ocean employees went
duck hunting at daylight this morning.
Nip" the Jolly porter, captains the
hunters, with Harry Griffin and Merritt
Moore act as lieutenants.
Ma >Ibo Or, 10, no. u;.l -o.lo.G,l
success with her flowers this year and it
is well worth a visit to her greenhouse to
see the charming variety of plants which
she now has on exhibition there.
The free delivery system is now in good
working order. but the service will be more
practicable and better appreciated and pat
ronized when the houses are numbered
and people become accustomed TO the new
order of things.
W. @. Harris fine collection of geolog.
lcal specimens, which attracted so much
attention at the territorial fair, is now on
exhibition at the court house, There is a
possibility that the county commissioners
will purchase the cabinets and contents.
o. G. Waid, who is badly wanted IN
this territory, is now killing time at
Omaha, Neb. 1t is probably unnecessary
to remark that Mr.. Waid is not a crim
inal. The authorities desire to serve
papers upon him in the divorce case Of
Francis Irene Waid VS.. o. G. Waid.
The county library catalogue will be
ready TO transmit to the printer in a few
days. There are LOO volumes in the
collection, including scientific and art
works, histories, novels and books of ref
erence. When the catalogue is printed
the librarian will be in attendance at the
roon in the Y. M. q. A. building three
days and an evening every week.